- Mar 16, 2022
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Abstract of 4th-shconf
Proceedings of The 4th World Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2022
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Utilitarianism: Greatest impediment to Justice
Sanlut Nengneithem Haokip
ABSTRACT:
The paper asserts the importance of Justice and certain virtues to a nation’s rise and fall and observes greatest impediment of Justice in the idea of Utilitarianism. While Utilitarianism advances its own conception of Justice, the article advances three-fold arguments in order to reprove Utilitarianism of its claim. Utilitarianism is not a viable form of justice since the theory represents a form of egoism, is structurally inconsistent to sound ethical doctrine, and it has dissolved the end and means dichotomy.
keywords: Categorical Imperative; End and Means; Just-War Theory (JWT); Law of Nature; Relative Law .